Dr. David Sichinava
September 8, 2018
Second Meeting
| Positivism | Interpretativism |
|---|---|
| General laws of human behavior | Study informants' in in-depth and empathic manner |
| Social sciences should use similar methods to natural science | As we study our subjects through their viewpoint, the logic of natural sciences are not useful |
| Human behavior can be explained through general laws | As humans are complex subjects, it is impossible to derive general laws |
| Quantitative | თვისებრივი | |
|---|---|---|
| The role of theory | Deductivism: theory testing | Inductivism: theory generation |
| Epistemology: | Similar to social sciences, that is *positivism(s) | Interpreativism |
Social life should be studied in an in-depth manner
The rolse of natural environment
The role of understanding and interpreting the phenomenon
Interviewing
Focus groups
Observation
Case study
People give meanings to the phenomena and act according to these emanings
Meanings form through social interaction
Social action depends on the process of interpretation
The meaning of things change over the process of interpretation
Blumer, 1969
Studies the phenomenon in quantitative manner, that is how much/how many
Decribes and unveils associations and causal relations
Social reality can be understood through general laws which are measurable
Opinion polls
Randomized experiments
Census
Big data
LaCour, M. & Green, D (2014): When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6215/1366
Brookman, D., Kalla, J., Aronow, P. (2014): Irregularities in LaCour (2014), http://stanford.edu/~dbroock/broockman_kalla_aronow_lg_irregularities.pdf
წყარო: Citron, D., Ginsparg, P. (2014): Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus